A conspicuous adaptability to antibiotics in the Escherichia coli mutator strain, dnaQ49

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Tanabe, Kiyoshi ^a   Kondo, Takashi ^b   Onodera, Yoshikuni ^a   Furusawa, Mitsuru ^a,b  

^a TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Antibiotic; DnaQ49 mutator; Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

5 DIFLUOROMETHYL 5,8 DIHYDRO 8 OXO 1,3 DIOXOLO[4,5 G]QUINOLINE 7 CARBOXYLIC ACID; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONES; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 0033158723     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13661.x     Document Type: Article

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